HDD Is Not Recognised?

I have a acer aspire 5315 notebook, running windows vista home basic.. i decided to reboot it, during this it froze. everything went corrupt. i purchased spotmau powersuite professional 2008 (spotmau.com) this allows you to speed up your computer , format , partion HDD's etc etc. this allows me to see my hitatchi 80.00 GB HDD but when i try to load it in bios it goes to a black screen and in the top left corner with a underscore line that continues to flash. i have been told this is where the computer cannot find the HDD. if i run a windows disc to install windows it gets to a point where it cant find my hardrive to save windows to. does anyone know how to format or do something that will enable my hardrive to be able for usage ? ( my hardrive has been completly wiped so its now blank and has been formatted to NTFS, yet it cant be recognised in bios)
Many Thanks
Nath Tuckey